This post is part of the A to Z Challenge.
Finding a subject to post under X was always going to be a challenge. But I have a very short true story that I experienced a couple of years ago. The brand managers at Xerox are going to be very happy with this story.
I had to take photocopies of my mark sheets for some reason or the other. I was wandering around a side-street in Koramangala, looking in vain for a photocopy shop.
I saw an elderly security guard outside an office building, and asked him if there was a photocopy shop nearby.
"Photocopy?" he looked at me with great contempt. "Xerox-aa?"
I don't know enough Kannada to render his next few words in the language he said them in, but the gist of it was that I should not be snobbish enough to call a Xerox a photocopy. If I wanted a Xerox, he said, I should ask for a Xerox.
He ended by gesturing down the road to indicate that the photocopy shop was further on.
I walked on, bemused.
2 comments:
Funny post. People can be offended so easily. I'm going to have to go look and see where Koramangala is now. :)
Have fun with the last few letters of the challenge.
LOL! Like calling a "tissue" a Kleenex, or a crayon a Crayola. Somethings are just meant to be called that! :)
Happy A to Z--almost done!
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